Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philips kept their ownership of the buildings and equipment used in the preparation and serving of the food , but made them available to ISS without charge ( while undertaking to maintain them in good order ) and Philips even paid for the electricity , water and telephone costs involved in the canteen operation and for the removal of waste . |
| 2 | The failure of any of the interviewers to ask the politicians about these dangerous and difficult matters made them all seem like collaborators in the politicians ' games . |
| 3 | A coastguard spokesman said the other two ‘ undoubtedly survived because they were wearing lifejackets , which also made them easier to spot in the water . ’ |
| 4 | There was no heating in the room and an inadequacy of blankets , and I finally put on all my clothes again and tried my best to snuggle under the only blanket to snatch an hour of sleep . |
| 5 | In Marseilles he was laid up with his familiar fever ; at the Iles d'Hyères , near Nice , he found himself obliged to dance with the proprietress of a rough tavern to avoid embarrassing enquiries about his identity , while as always when the Stuarts set sail , the weather was appalling . |
| 6 | Lady Selvedge allowed herself to be led on to the platform and was introduced in a short speech by Mark , who found himself unable to think of very much to say about her , confused as he was by the talk of ‘ high principles ’ , cocktail parties , and her former husband 's misdeeds which he remembered having with Sophia and Penelope . |
| 7 | Nora tried her best to get round the wartime restrictions so that Constance could be well dressed . |
| 8 | Maria first demonstrated her literary bent at the age of fifteen , jousting in verse with Joseph Jekyll [ q.v. ] , a noted wit twice her age ; her ‘ Inscription on an Hermitage ’ , written during a stay in the Caribbean in 1788 , displays real poetical maturity . |
| 9 | By 1973 , the overseas offices accounted for more than half of the fee income , but the firm found itself poorly represented in the USA with only two of its nine branches established there . |
| 10 | Yet in The Rake 's Progress de Valois found something new to say about the ladies of the town when she made their leader kick off her shoes , pull up her long yellow skirt and roll down her red stockings before bursting barefooted into a riotous dance on a great salver . |
| 11 | He then made careful research into the reserve fuel lifted and found we all returned with about 23% of our fuel . |
| 12 | It was half way through , and she could not understand a word of the dialogue and was surprised and rather indignant that she could not understand , for she had genuinely looked forward , with half of herself , to seeing a picture : as it was , she found herself obliged to concentrate on the other aspects of the affair . |
| 13 | And so Clara told Clelia , in return , some of her own history , and in telling it , she seemed to find , strangely and more securely than ever a tone that absolved her , a tone that redeemed her past from meanness and humiliations , so that she even found herself able to speak of her own mother without evasion . |
| 14 | She could not bear to feel such a stranger , so alien , and somehow so insecure in her own personality , as if she found herself hard to recognise in these new surroundings . |
| 15 | She found herself unable to speak with the fear that clutched at her , the worrying possibility that her whole life had been built on a lie . |
| 16 | Nicky 's parents found him impossible to look after : he was always picking fights , especially with smaller children ; he had a fight with his teacher at school and ran away from home five times in two years . |
| 17 | Law consulted Lansdowne on all matters of importance , kept him informed of the progress of negotiations over Ulster , but found him difficult to convince of the merits of compromise . |
| 18 | Jeremy Guscott snatched his 15th try in 24 internationals , Dewi Morris pounced behind the Springbok scrum for his fifth in 11 when Garth Wright 's put-in squirted out too quickly and Carling wrapped it up when two Springboks panicked under an Andrew bomb , allowing him to fall on the ball . |
| 19 | Obviously the detailed nature of these checks depends on the material submitted , but we found it invaluable to look at the output from these checks before looking at the coursework itself . |
| 20 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 21 | It was also surprising to hear that so many found it possible to stick to this diet when normally they found themselves lacking in the willpower department . |
| 22 | The German middle classes and the German Catholics in particular knew that the Prussian Poles were no great threat to the state , yet in spite of their protests , the Junker-dominated Government found it essential to work through crude Völkisch opinion to maintain itself and divert the impending revolution . |
| 23 | Peter found it therapeutic to go through the boxes . |
| 24 | Afraid to be alone , Leonora nevertheless found it impossible to sleep with the large figure of Penry Vaughan beside her bed . |
| 25 | She found it impossible to settle after his visit , and spent the time until she went to bed silently reviling him . |
| 26 | A supporter said yesterday : ‘ What they want is to have somebody they can control , ’ but Mr Field found it impossible to operate on that basis . |
| 27 | Sometimes I found it impossible to concentrate on my school work as the activities of the bird populations outside kept grabbing my attention . |
| 28 | Middlesbrough found it impossible to come to terms with the Israeli as he snatched two first-half goals . |
| 29 | He found it impossible to keep in his head for any length of time that Bella was n't still his wife . |
| 30 | I found it impossible to get from Mr and Mrs what their care would be , they were either unable or unwilling to discuss it with me , unquote . |